The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-09-13

tered mental and physical condition.
After the boys had switched him for
ten minutes they were called Oft, and q
couple of warriors advanced with their
muzzle loading rifles and began to fire
charges of powder into the poor fellows
flesh. Does it hurt? Well, sir, hell can't
be anv worse. I've had dozen charges
fired into me and / never felt any pain
to equal it. I'll take two bullets in pref
erence to one charge OF powder every
time. The first charge set him to dane
ing and screaming, and at the third or
fourth he kicked one of the warriors
over and became so savage that they had
TO fully bind him to the stake They
fired thirty-four charges in all, and by
the time they had finished you could nos
have told that Sewell was white man.
His agony was something awful, and he
writhed about with such strength that
the stake had twice to be driven deeper.
His shrieks and screams, as ] afterward
knew, were heard distance of more than
two miles, and yet this was only the be-
ginning of what they had in store for
him.
The next move was to apply the burn
ing sticks. Some green sticks had been
put upon the fire on purpose, and three
or four warriors applied the burning ends
to vcrious portions Of the engineers body.
The pain fairly drove him crazy, and in
n short time he tainted. Water was
brought from the stream and dashed over
him, and during this interval many war
riors crowded around me to see how
was bearing up.
Dogs! Do you think you can make
the Long Death cry like that shouted
at them. Here, pull up my trousers
and see where the cowardly Sioux shot
powder into my legs. Pull off my boots
and find where the Cheyennes applied
the fire sticks. Did l weep like womanT
Go ask them. And when you ask that,
inquire who killed the Black Eagle, Red
Horse, Big Mountain, Great Buffalo, and
Black Feather. They will tell you, the
Long Death"
But for the presence of four or five
chiefs | should have been done for on
the spot, so excited were the young men.
BY this time Sewell had regained his
senses, and was sobbing and wailing
again, and they went back to their sport
A warrior approached him with sharp
knife and slashed him in fifty different
places, each cut being deep enough to
be painful but none of them very serl-
Gus. The gush of blood soon turned the
man into horrible looking object, and
several times he would have tainted had
they not had water Mt hand to throw
over him. He had screamed so loud and
long that his voice was now entirely
gone, and the only sound he could utter
was a groan. lie had long seemed I'M
conscious of my presence, and l was
glad of this. do not think he was III
his full senses after the burning. After
the warrior had cut and slashed with his
knife he fell back to give place to anoth-
er. This second one meant to do finer
work. He meant, as first move, TO
cut the victims tongue out, but as he
reached for it with his left hand Sewell
snapped at him like dog, got the black
hand firmly between his jaws and then
there was a grand uproar. Everybody
enjoyed the fix the Indian was in, and
whenever he motioned as if he meant to
use his knife they shouted to him to give
the victim fair play. Sewell held to him
for fully five minutes, decorating the hand
like bulldog, and then three or fouI
warriors seized him and made him let &c.
The bitten warrior relinquished the knife
to another, and during the next quarter
of an hour Sewell suffered the loss of his
nose, ears, fingers and lips. He shrieked
out in agony when his nose was sliced
| ar l,,t hat ha OrOnnp0.
and | consoled myself with the hope that
he was dead. The Indians finally be-
came satisfied that they could get nc
more fun" Out of him, and he was
scalped, and the faggots at his feet were
lighted to consume the body.
NY time had come. There was grand
yell from every warrior as the two guards
led me to the stake. How did | feel
WE'LL was recklessly desperate. hated
to go without having revenge on some OF
them, and, ne there was no other way,
gave them tongue flashing. called
them women and towards; l cited TIC
titious cases, when one hunter had licked
six of them; / dared and defied them &c
do their worst. l had them worked NJ
until they fairly screamed for my blood
and | reasoned that the torture would moi
last long. Twas stripped of every vestigt
of clothing, bound hand and foot to tho
stake, and, as in the engineers case, two
warriors made ready to shoot powder into
me. They were loading their guns when
out from the heavy growth of cotton
woods behind the camp, came line OF
forty men on a run, and just in the real
of them seventy-five army troopers.
saw the men before any one else in camp
Indeed, they were not pistol shot away
when the alarm was given. II was the